By David Duhalde
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Elders teach this saying to generations of children. My father taught me a story from his political activism to ingrain this concept into my mind. During Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) government in Chile, my dad told a fellow UP supporter […]
We can all breathe again. Barack Obama has finally named his vice-presidential running mate, and it’s none other than Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Media reaction to the choice has mostly revolved around Biden’s potential effect on the horserace and has predictably been rather inane. Does Biden represent the attack dog mentality that the Obama […]
In an op-ed for the New York Times on August 17, Paul Krugman argued that “a hard-hitting populism . . . would give [Barack Obama] a landslide victory this year.” While it is inarguably true that a more passionate focus on the economy would bolster Obama’s campaign, is populism really the answer? Considering that CNN’s […]
